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Re: [PATCH] Add UPDATING document



On Friday, 19 May 2006 at 09:53, Rocco Rutte wrote:
> * Brendan Cully [06-05-18 12:36:19 -0700] wrote:
> 
> >I don't think it's necessary to include release notices that
> >don't include features either.
> 
> My main idea is to help people going with the devel series as for the 
> stable series, there are/will be separate documents already. So there 
> won't be such a release without feature changes... :)

I trimmed the non-existent ones anyway. Presumably we just haven't
read the changelog for the versions between 1.5.5 and 1.5.11 :)

> But I still wonder if we can append the date like so:
> 
> Mutt 1.5.11 (2005-09-15):
> 
>   M $envelope_from is now a deprecated alias for
>     $use_envelope_from (2005-09-14)
> 
> ...because if doesn't really destroy the compactness and this document 
> is supposed to help in the future and not for past releases.

I've committed your patch, but only kept the feature dates for CVS. I
don't think they're very useful once an official release contains
them.

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